Cool : a postwar aesthetic and mode of being

This thesis examines cool and coolness, both as word and as mode of affective deportment. It treats cool as an historical and literary phenomenon in late twentieth-century Anglo-American culture, during the period between 1945 and the present day. From relatively obscure origins among the subculture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Michael
Other Authors: Small, Helen ; Ratcliffe, Sophie
Published: University of Oxford 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748856